That included final cleanup and disposition of eight plutonium-production reactors ... more to glassify all of the waste at the Hanford vitrification plant, as had long been planned.

The 580-square-mile Hanford site adjacent to Richland produced nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation ... work on the massive Hanford vitrification plant has progressed to startup ...

Hanford workers make progress in 2023 on installing a new ventilation system at the REDOX plant at the Hanford nuclear site to allow continued cleanup in the former plutonium processing facility.

Workers at the Hanford Site are cleaning up radioactive and hazardous chemical waste left from the past production of plutonium ... sent to the vitrification plant to be glassified.

The lab also will play a major role in turning radioactive waste into a stable glass form at the Hanford vitrification plant ... nearly two-thirds of the plutonium from World War II through ...

The robot isn't the only machine to have ... two rail tunnels near the site's Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant (PUREX), which sits in the middle of the Hanford site. The tunnels are each ...